Online Tools for Enhanced Analysis

Use for searching for the total number of citations of author(s). It provides a total citation count, total number of cited publications and Jorge E. Hirsch's H-Index.

IMPORTANT: Please note that this tool is as accurate/inaccurate as Google Scholar itself. It is important to check and refine the data that the gadget performs calculations on by clicking on the "view publications" link. If the returned page shows inaccurate results then the search terms in the gadget need to be refined until the returned page is as accurate as possible.

A web tool that calculates different citation statistics, such as the h-index and g-index. The results are available in html, in spreadsheet files (tsv), and in BibTeX. For more information about how to use this tool, watch the Youtube video tutorial.

Be aware of the limitations of this tool and check the FAQ section. According to the FAQ page, only one search per email is allowed. There is also a limit of 200 items (in the tutorial, it says 500 items) for the analysis. The analysis takes about 1 minute per item to calculate.

Authors' names can be challenged to search. To improve your search, use only author's last name (no first name or initials) and main title in quotations. For example, bao "superior thermal conductivity of single-layer graphene".

The term [CITATION] at the beginning of an entry indicates that the full text of the item is not accessible through Google Scholar. To see the full text of the item, search Worldcat UMD, UBorrow or Citation Finder. To make your discovery of full text easier, consider downloading LibX to your browser of choice. After the download, you will be able to see Find It button next to an entry:

For a quick overview of the limitations and critiques to Google Scholar, check the Wikipedia articles: